Freelance journalist scores coup with account of bin Laden raid
It's a remarkable story about a remarkable episode. Three months after Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan and killed the terrorist leader, the New Yorker magazine has a gripping account packed with new and compelling details.
The mission's planners considered tunneling into the compound but abandoned the idea early on because of the high water table surrounding the area, writes Washington journalist Nicholas Schmidle in "Getting bin Laden." President Obama and his advisers never saw what happened inside the house in which bin Laden was killed; the only live feed of the raid was from a drone circling overhead. Afterward, Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, offered bin Laden's body to the government of Saudi Arabia for burial; he was rebuffed, and the body was dumped into the Arabian Sea.
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